BY MICHAEL MAY

BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON

It's been more than two months since Bee Cave officials signed a controversial deal with the developers of a large-scale shopping center project, but peace has hardly returned to the valley in this semi-rural community.

BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON

Mark Rose's multifaceted career has taken him from the Austin City Council to the Lower Colorado River Authority, to Public Strategies Inc., to solo consulting, to his latest stopover at the Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative in Giddings, east of Austin.

BY JORDAN SMITH

An attorney for Lacresha Murray and her grandparents and siblings filed suit in federal court claiming a litany of civil and constitutional violations stemming from Murray's 1996 arrest and subsequent three-year incarceration.

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

BY WES MARSHALL

Virginia B. Wood believes that she has found the elusive pie in the sky, and tells you all about it while reviewing Pascale Le Draoulec's American Pie: Tales of Life (and Pie) From America's Backroads.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

In his History of the World as the Center of the Universe, Stephen Pruitt proves that he is gifted not only as a lighting designer, but as a writer and performer who can tell an interesting anecdote or formulate a unique view of just how the various facets of the universe fit together.

In Vigil, playwright Morris Panych has written a rich character study that is also an extremely perceptive, wise rumination on death, but it's also very funny, and Hyde Park Theatre's production allows Panych's script to shine like a light through a lonely window.

By billing it as a "neurotic" comedy, Naughty Austin seems to position Beyond Therapy in the Woody Allen movie genre, and its production best compares to the filmmaker's late career efforts -- one that he seemingly wrote during a spare hour in a psychiatrist's waiting room